Charity

[Sappho]

Quote by: brien I concur with your point about non monetary charity, yet I suspect those who give more money probably also donate more time as well.

But it doesn't need to be that way. At my poorest, and unemployed, I gave my time to charities - mainly Nursing Homes and Hospitals.

During my school years I volunteered. Raising my children, I forced them into volunteering. (They didn't mind. Found it uplifting even.)

We have a duty in this and it's time we start expressing it as such. How cool would it be, if schools mandated voluntary work for the 13-15 yr olds as a part of the ciriculum, with a fail across the board for those who do not give of themselves for the higher ideal - charity and goodness.

[brien]

But it doesn't need to be that way. At my poorest, and unemployed, I gave my time to charities - mainly Nursing Homes and Hospitals.

My point exactly. The only reason I tied those who give money as opposed to those who give time was to illustrate that they probably come from the same segments of society.

[clancy1]

We all need to give what we can irrespective of any political affiliation given the state of poverty half the world lives in , although it doesn`t surprise me that conservative minded people donate more than Liberals. I know quite a few people who aren`t at all well off and who donate to charity all the same. This pinch they feel given how little they have is admirable in my opinion.